Corruption in the Iberian Empires: Greed, Custom, and Colonial Networks

by Christoph Rosenmüller

Book Overview

This book provides new perspectives into a subject that historians have largely overlooked. The contributors use fresh archival research from Spain, Portugal, Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, and the Philippines to examine the lives of slaves and farmworkers as well as self-serving magistrates, bishops, and traders in contraband. The authors show that corruption was a powerful discourse in the Atlantic world. Investigative judges could dismiss culprits,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082635825X
• ISBN13: 9780826358257
• Release Date: May 2017
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"